Business Card Designs and Uses

It really doesn’t matter how pretty or “cool” your business card is if it doesn’t bring you more business. Think of your business card as a mini-business marketing tool. Put it to work for you.

Most people will have a “nice” card with their name, business name, perhaps a small blurb on the company like “We Sell the Best Cars”, and the address of the business if you are brick & mortar, with phone number, and probably the website and email.

Business cards are good to have even if your company is primarily digital. If you are going to go through the bother of designing and printing up business cards, then make them more useful to your business AND to the prospective customers. Turn your business card into the marketing tool and lead generation machine it should be.

Here is how you can do that…

1. Make Them Useful

Get a little innovative with them. Add a coupon (time sensitive). A QR code (jury is still out on this but it is a means of adding you instantly to their contact list). A special web page for a free gift – which is a great way for lead generation BTW.

The more useful the card, the more places you can hand them out ~ or ~ leave behind.

Maybe you have a lunch counter and want to drum up the mid-morning coffee and donut crowd. You can turn your business card into a coupon or a loyalty punch card. Print them up, put an end date on them (ie: Free Apple Pie with Lunch – offer ends 23 October), leave them on bulletin boards at local shopping centres, laundries, etc.

Business cards are printed for the sole purpose of giving them away. They are cheap, quick to print and design, make them go to work for your business and profit.

You might be thinking “Gee Cynthia, with an end date, I’ll have to print more when the date expires!”

That is true. However, if that thought keeps you on the fence then ask yourself this:A) Would you prefer to put your business card up on a bulletin board at the local laundry and have it stay there forever? Or,B) Would you like to have to keep replacing those cards daily because they work so well that people actually take it down off the wall, walk into your place of business with it, and buy something as a result?

Not only should you print them with end dates, but you should also print them for different special offers. Test them, and don’t forget to get the customer information from the people who redeem them.

You can do more with your business card than just say, “I was here”

A business card represents you and your company. If your card is cheap and designed without any thought as to how you can be of service to your potential customer – that will communicate to your customer that you don’t have much to offer. Why should they bother to come to you?

Finding Opportunities to Give Business Cards Away

Always keep a pocket full of fresh business cards and look for opportunities to seed them around. If your card had a headline like “Today is YOUR Lucky Day” – most people will at least stop and look at it. If it was laying on the ground, it has a better chance to get picked up with a compelling headline. Who doesn’t want to know why today is their lucky day?

You can try other types of direct response headlines too like:
– If you are a RMT try “When Doctors “Feel Rotten” This Is What They Do”
– An MLM’r try “How I Made A Fortune With A “Fool Idea””
– Behavioral Therapist try “Does Your Child Ever Embarrass You?”

Be sure to print the benefit to your customer of calling or visiting your business. A simple way of describing benefit is to first think of the “feature” then follow with a “so that…” For example; if you sell off-grid water purifying kits and the main selling feature is they use a funky copper coil that never needs replacing – SO THAT – you will always have access to fresh water no matter where you go in the world! ⇠ print that on your card.

Add a promise on your card too. Something like:

“Fastest Lunch Guaranteed! – we will have you back to work in time, or lunch is FREE!”

Don’t be afraid to use up every piece of real estate available on that business card. Front AND back.

The business card is extremely versatile. Even the ones that are used for appointments. Add to those with CTA’s and coupons. It could be as simple as inviting them to join in on a giveaway contest on Facebook. Doing this moves them into your social networking. Now you have added one more way of contact and follow up.

The Business Card Marketing Game

Instead of printing and stocking up on the same old boring cards that you try to force into people’s hands, now you can make it a monthly game of how fast you can turn them into a boomerang marketing idea.

Have cards on you at all times, it’s always good to offer your business card when you meet someone – even if they do throw it away later on.

If you make a habit of always leaving your cards behind, whether it is after a business meeting or you missed someone in their office, use them as your calling card. You can put a note on the back of it too saying you stopped by to say hi and wondered how they are doing. This one small gesture will let them know you are thinking about them.

Now you might be asking, “Gee Cynthia, now that I have all these great ideas for new business cards, what do I do with the 50,000 I got printed up for $50 last year?”

About Cynthia Zohizan

Top marketing strategist, digital marketer, and business coach. With a history of direct sales and marketing I’ve successfully sold just about anything including cemetery plots and vacuum cleaners door to door. For years I have been in the driver's seat building brick & mortar businesses and digital properties that have turned into early retirement packages for my clients by selling them at a high profit. I have streamlined and refined this proven path to success... more »

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